Once an abstract artist, he has worked in the figurative tradition since the late 1970s.

James Gillick (b. 1972, Norfolk) is an artist working in the figurative tradition.

It's surprising how, after all these iconoclastic years, his paintings no longer seem such a distance from the classic figurative tradition of Western art.

The figure returned in the 1960s, but without the beaux-arts figurative tradition, sometimes even as life-casts like those George Segal made with plaster.

Martin Jennings is a British Sculptor born in 1957 working in the figurative tradition.

Among artists, those involved with the figurative tradition in painting tend to find her work offputting.

But they break with the figurative tradition because they are, of all things, cuddly and cute - an art-world no-no.

What's more, members of the Tesuque Pueblo pioneered the "rain god" figurative tradition in the late 1800's specifically for the tourist trade.

'There is a strong figurative tradition in Germany', says Fishko.

Dobslaff's intense canvases owe more to the abstract than to the figurative tradition.